The Classic Plato Collection: 24 Socratic Dialogues

*Includes the following works:



The Republic

Apology

Charmides

Critias

Euthydemus

Euthyphro

Gorgias

Ion

Laches

Laws

Lysis

Meno

Parmenides

Phaedo

Phaedrus

Philebus

Protagoras

The Statesman

The Symposium

Theaetetus

Timaeus

Cratylus

Sophist

Crito





In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing.  Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would become Western philosophy.  That year Plato was born to a wealthy family: with an uncle who was close friends with Socrates, Plato was seemingly destined to become a philosopher.  By the end of his life, Plato had indeed become the foremost philosopher of his time, and perhaps the most famous philosopher in Western history.